So much to do, so little time

Well it wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't procrastinated!!!

We leave for Montgomery on Wednesday and there is still so much I have to do. I have to make sure the house is very very clean ,because I cannot leave a house that isn't completely clean when I go away on a trip. It just makes me feel too good to come back and walk into a meticulous house after being away. Especially not to have to worry about that when you get back from a vacation! This part I'm not too worried about, because I can do that while the kids are here (well, except for the guest room which they occupy) and I do have a good start on that today.

But I have to, HAVE to go shopping to get me some shorts, capris, and a swimsuit. All of these things are very very very hard to find for me and will take a long time so I am not looking forward to that. Which makes me sad because normally I love shopping! Right now I'm just looking at it as something that has to be done. And that sucks because it takes all the fun away from it! But I"ll be happy if (IF) I go and am actually able to find things I am happy with. *chalks "shopping not fun anymore" as yet another reason to get my butt to working out* sigh.

This evening we have to go to Tony's parents. Tomorrow I have to go babysit all day out in Downsville. And the guys want to maybe go see a movie tomorrow evening. As much as I want to see another one of my movies, I think it'll have to wait until I get back. So I'll have to cram all this shopping (and packing!!!!) into tomorrow evening, the day before we leave. Atleast we don't have to leave for Montgomery until about 11 Wednesday. That will give me some extra time to pack if need-be.

And the girls were being good but now they are driving me crazy, and I found out my mom was majorly sick for a couple of days and had a scare and made me cry so now I'm just stressed out! It'll all be good when it's Wednesday when we are leaving, I'm excited.

In happy news, I have had my DVR set to capture ALL of the Olympic trials, so I have been in absolute heaven watching all of them! Woooot!
We have SO many front runners going into the Olympics this year. So many world champion title holders (most have held it the past 4 years or so). And we have already broken the world record several times in just the trials that I have watched. We are going to have some very very good teams.
The men's 400M swimming finals between Phelps and Lochte was AMAZING. The crowd was going crazier than the superbowl, I was on the edge of my seat cheering, and they BOTH broke the world record. And that's not even those two going as fast as they can. I can't wait to see what they do at the Olympics!

Get Smart & a dream come true

Get Smart was really fun and funny and, well, smart.
The acting was fantastic and The Rock was HOT. I mean I always think he's hot, but suits and sunglasses do it for me.
It had alot of ahhhh *covers eyes with hands* moments whether due to gross stuff or stuff that looked like it hurt (mostly that one) but you're always laughing when you do it.
Steve Carell is a subtle genius.

Ok I"m sorry I'm a huge dork but my dreams came true today when Blizzard announced DIABLO III !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first real real game (especially computer game) that I played that really got me into gaming. I mean I had been playing the Final Fantasies, and a couple other games, but Diablo really is the reason I'm a huge gamer today, even of MMO's and such. Diablo II is the reason Tony fell in love with me, way back in 2000, when he came in one day to see BJ and saw me stay up until 1 in the morning playing that. I would even bat at him and tell him to go away if he tried to talk to me. I had friends on Battle.net (the server the game is run on) and we would have the most fun. That means I've been waiting on another installment of one of my favorite games for 8 years. Ok I'm going to shut up now because I'm the biggest dork but I am SO EXCITED. I fell on the floor literally when Tony told me and I was so excited I was shaking. /sigh. I also had to call my brother and freak out with him. And thank him. He was the only one with a computer way back in the day, so he had to deal with his little sister staying in his room until ungodly hours in the morning playing Diablo II.


By the way, I am awesome because I took that picture with my camera looking at the computer.
That is all, I"m tired! It's been a good day!

Summer fun

You know what? I am having a great summer. Relaxation, a cool job, swimming, awesome trips, hanging out with friends.....it's pretty dandy.

There are so many movies out I want to see! !All I wanna do this weekend is watch movies. I mean, I have all of Saturday free so there's no reason why I shouldn't atleast get to see one movie! I want to see Wall-E, Hancock, Get Smart and Wanted. I'll also have Monday and Tuesday night to go see something before we leave.

I think I'll eliminate Hancock until Montgomery. Because I think that would be an awesome one for us all to go see together while we are there. If we can't, then I'll see it when we get back.

We really want to see Get Smart with a group of people, so we might wait until we can get some peeps together for that.

Tomorrow I babysit, and then I have Friday night with no plans either. I don't remember the last time I had a weekend where I didn't have any plans. I am most defiantly NOT going to see a movie tomorrow night, with 2 big movies opening and 2 more that have just opened. I'm getting old and not liking to put up with big opening night movie crowds anymore.

I think that's the ONLY reason I'm not passing up a chance to go to Gulf freaking Shores to instead go see Batman! lol I have been waiting on that movie impatiently since, well, since I saw the first one. Batman has always been one of my top 3 favorite superhero's. But it'll be there when I get back, and with less crowds. I mean, it's Gulf Shores! Woooo!

So in less than a week Tony and I will be heading out to Montgomery, Alabama where the wonderful Meredith and David reside. Road trip with my honey, woot!! I love traveling. I wish I could do it alllll the time. Its tradition for us to go to the Peden's (hehe, I can call them the Peden's now!) for the 4th of July. A few years back we went with a couple friends to Montgomery to spend 4th of July with them, and we had such a great time we made it a tradition right then and there.

When we get back it will be about a week and a half until I leave again with the girls to go to Gulf Shores. Partay! I can't wait to go to some cool restaurants and go swimming and chill on the beach with a book. It should be mucho funo.

Well I gotta go catch up on my DVR before I get my beauty sleep. Gotta see who got kicked off So You Think You Can Dance!

Crapbox

*commencing rant in 3......2.......1*
*begin rant*


I'm so mad at my Xbox I could spit.

I can play a game anywhere between 15-30 minutes before it starts giving me unable to read disc, or just freezes the game.

No matter if I've just achieved my greatest score on RockBand or if I've played through almost an entire level of Indiana Jones Legos. It dosen't care. It dosen't love me.

Curse Microsoft for putting out such pieces of crap for so much money. Curse them for owning the market of EVERYthing and so curse them for being able to do whatever they want. Curse empire's!!! *shakes fist*
If we had enough money to buy an elite (in which *scarcastic voice* ohhhh of course, they fix the problem and make an elite for even more money, of COURSE) then it would be fine. But we don't. We shouldn't HAVE TO. Our Xbox is only a year old. Barely. A year as of June 3rd.

*turns to the xbox* You know what Xbox?? You know what??? The PS2 is better than you!! Yeah I said it! Your new name is the crapbox! Suck on that!

Tony is working on getting it sent off to either be fixed crappily, or have another crappy one sent to us.
I'd rather just burn it.




*end rant*

Frustration

is being locked out of your apt.
So needless to say I'm grumpy today. We've been locked out since 1:00 yesterday afternoon. I'm too tired and hungry and grumpy to go into how it happened, it dosen't matter anyway. We stayed at the in-laws, atleast I had a kitten to play with and cable in our room.
I was very proud of myself though because after the initial mad/sad of realizing what happened, I switched gears and tried my very best to make it lighthearted and cheer Tony up. Cause he was REALLY mad. lol But it worked, I put him in a good mood and then we had a good day, all things considering. I was proud of myself for being strong ;)
Also, yesterday did hold hidden blessings. It's always nice when that happens.
But I didn't sleep very well, didn't have a toothbrush, didn't have things to sleep in , didn't have contact solution, ready to be home, my house is sooo messy cause I was going to clean yesterday, etc so I'm going to fix everything now! I'm sure I'll feel better after all that!

Movies galore

Yesterday I was the true dork that I am. After getting terribly excited about and going to the opening of Best Buy, what did I walk out with? Another step towards completing my Star Trek: The Next Generation movie's collection...Star Trek: Insurrection. /shrug. What can I say, Picard floats my boat. (I got it for 10 bucks! eat that FYE!) How do I know Tony is the one for me? He walked out with the complete collection of the Star Trek original movies. (for 40 bucks! woooot!)

Right now I'm eating cinnamon rolls and watching Fern Gully. I love this job. I burned myself though, that's not cool.
Later we're going with our personal librarian to the library. I gotta make it quick because she is expensive and charges by the minute. hehe. yay for books!

Tonight we are going to Abigail's birthday party! I got her the Mr. Bean movie/Johnny English combo pack for her birthday. (We are both huge Rowan Atkinson fans)

Well I've been on a movie watching spree lately. yay for movies!

Tuesday Tony, I, Laura Michelle and Mikey went to see The Hulk. It was indeed great. It was really slow, but then again it's The Hulk and it's going to be slower than most Marvel movies cause that's just the story. It dosen't compare to Iron Man, lol, which I want to see again even though I saw it twice in theaters, but it was a great movie. Very well made. I loved Edward Norton as The Hulk. He fit the part. Liv Tyler was a great Marvel damsel as well. Even though she used Arwen voice all the way through so I kept thinking Arwen. (not that that's a bad thing) The cameo at the end just made my day. That was my favorite part. It's not going to be one I scramble to buy when it comes out, even though I would want it for the collection. Tony will scramble though I'm sure, he's always been a huge Hulk fan.

I really hope they continue with the "plan" to do the other two movies, and then come out with The Avengers' movie. A Captain America movie would rock my socks. I mean, a super soldier in WWII? That's all the idea you need for a great movie. Thor would worry me though. It would be hard not to make that too terribly cheesy. I mean like Mikey summed it up when I was trying to explain why I was worried , it would be like a movie about Fabio in outer space with a hammer. But that would just be such an awesome idea. Do all 4 character movies and then a big one bringing them all together? Yeah...

Thursday I was off and Abigail was off so I went over there to hang out and watch movies. That made me happy cause I hardly ever get to hang out with just her like that. We rented The Other Boleyn Girl, Be Kind Rewind, and August Rush. I can say right now that at the end of the day we were terribly excited because we loved all three!! That hardly ever happens!

Defiantly not everyone will like Boleyn. I have an affinity for period pieces....BUT, I still am objective towards them. (my hatred for Marie Antoinette comes to mind) This story was awesome. Especially once it got going. It had depth, kept you guessing and kept it interesting. You would hate one character one minute and then feel for them the next. I also love good stories about history and this was a story that I never heard told. History buffs would probably know, but I didn't know it led to what it did at the end. I had an inkling when I heard her name, but didn't know for sure, so it was an added bonus that I felt like I had learned something new after I watched it.

Oh man. What can I say about Be Kind Rewind. I have been wanting to see this movie since I first saw the preview so long ago. I absolutely love Jack Black and Mos Def, so that was a big plus, but it was also my kind of humor. I thought of my brother alllll throughout the movie, because it is so "us". It makes me laugh just thinking about it. I knew it was going to be funny, but I didn't know it was going to be such a great feel good story as well. Loved it!

August Rush was cute and all feel-goody. The beginning bored me because it was really slow, but once it got going it was great. One of those movies you keep wanting to yell at because you want the people to find each other, and they miss each other a couple times, or meet with out knowing who they really are, etc. Abs and I kept yelling "turn around!!!!" "dont go that way!!!" , etc. Especially for music lovers, and especially especially for anyone who has ever played an instrument, you have to see it. Kerri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers were fantastic. Freddie Highmore never ceases to amaze me.

Well, the movie is over so I gotta go entertain some kids. A happy weekend to all....

New 'do

I'm batting for the brunette team now!

*growls*

So my tummy said. 30 minutes seems soooooooooooo long when your waiting on chicken, biscuits, black eyed peas, mashed taters and gravy to cook! I'm starving!

The kids gave me my money's worth today. O. M. G. Sheri sprung Brittany on me. So I had all of my nieces, 3 girls, all around the same ages, to babysit. They don't get to see Brittany much so that made them 10x's more hyper. Brittany is a bossy demon so that made babysitting 10x's harder. They got into so many fights. I couldn't even go to the bathroom without one of them knocking on the door yelling my name for something. *takes a deep breath* 5:00 couldn't have come soon enough today. But, it's over now, and I have a huge sense of accomplishment. And I got ALL the housework done (and it was alot) so I have all day tomorrow to do whatever.

Speaking of tomorrow, I get to see The Hulk finally! We saw too many this weekend to go see The Hulk too, and we decided we wanted to go when it wasn't as crowded, and then we were like, hello, cheap Tuesday! I was never a huge Hulk fan (Tony is and he's dying to go) but there's nothing I love more than my superhero movies. Hopefully we'll be going with Mikey and Laura Michelle , yay I miss them!!

I think also tomorrow I shall go do something that scares me, but that I think I will like. I'll let you know how it turns out ;-)

Movies

Today we saw 2 movies.

Kung Fu Panda: We took the kids and met Steph and Michael at the movie. We all loved it. Hilarious. You get what you expect from the previews. I don't think it would have been the same without Jack Black. Just knowing it's him and hearing his voice, and already knowing his mannerisms, made the tiniest things so funny. It was very much fun. Tony and I took the girls to The Creamery to get burgers and ice cream. They had never been. It made them so happy they are totally in love with the place now.



The Happening: Later this evening Priscilla, Steph, Michael, Tony and I went to see The Happening. (was a perfect movie to see on Friday the 13th!!) It got mixed reviews all around but this is what I thought. Ok so I absolutely LOVE the message of this movie. I won't say why so I won't give anything away but if you really really really know me you'll know why. I am a bit biased because I love M. Night 's movies so much, but I really liked it. I really really liked the ending. It was probably one of my least favorite though, because of the stuff that is hard to watch. So I don't know if I could watch it again and if I did it would be a long time. I'm not a violence person, I mean I can handle alot, but I'm not the person that's like "COOL!" when I see someone's arm get ripped off. I can't handle seeing bodies full force land on the ground from 5 stories up or close ups of blood spurting out of gun shot wounds to the head or a car wrecking and bodies being thrown out of it, etc. I didn't expect to get that much in-your-face-can-they-really-show-that violence. The good thing is, you can defiantly tell when it's coming so you can close your eyes if you need to. I was also bored in parts, and I hate Mark Wahlberg so that took a little away, but I love Zooey Deshnel so that added a bit back. And again, I loved the crystal clear message that the movie is about.

I was very happy I got the X-Files preview! *squee!*

Double Edged Sword

It really sucks because I come here to blog but then I feel like half the things I want to say I've already said it all with Photoblog! (btw, I'm SO happy two more of my friends got a photoblog. The disease is spreading!)


I haven't done much today, and it's been great. Tomorrow I will be babysitting again.

A headache is coming on.

I feel like I've gotten nothing accomplished today, but I know I get so much accomplished when I babysit that I can afford this one day. I even slept all the way till' 10:00! Barely. That is so late for me now. Weird. I've played some Sims, watched a lot of Bones Season 2 (dang I love that show). Had Sonic for the first time in a loooooooooooooooonng time. (and MAN was it good)

Ya know it's weird and I can't explain it but this babysitting thing has helped me out so much. I mean really. I don't think that's worded right, maybe I mean the act of it. I guess.....the purpose. The new everyday things it has injected into my days, the challenge. To sit on my nice clean made-up bed after I've done all the house chores and the kids are finally quiet and playing for a couple of hours in the next room and forces me to think about things I need/want to change and how to accomplish that. I don't know why it forces me to do so I guess it just motivates me to do so. And it's not just because I have a new "job". I've had that "new job motivation" before and it's never impacted me in this way. Maybe because it's a job right up my alley? /shrugs That sounds so simple and dumb to me but....Yeah, I'll just stop talking about this because I'm making no sense to myself in type! I tried. The point is good things lately, good things!

My peace of mind has just been so dandy lately. I've been really happy and haven't even realized it. I mean I've realized it but I guess it's just been a gradual thing. I can't remember the last time I was depressed and used-to-be that happened very often. I mean it hasn't been a 24/7 thing of course, but wow at the difference in me lately. Something has changed but I can't put my finger on it. Hm.

Friday Tony, Priscilla and I are supposed to be going to see The Happening. I'm excited about that because I am a HUGE M.Night fan! No matter what people have been saying about the movie, nothing would prevent me from going to see it.

Well, I really must get to washing clothes-...... nah, you know what, I'll save that for when I need a break from the kids tomorrow. I'm going back to Bones, which I DON'T get to do while the kids are here!

Family

Well, following my disclaimer in my previous post, lol :


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I've been babysitting a whole lot for my sister lately. Every Mon, Wed and Fri are my days. (Except for circumstances like yesterday in which Sheri had something to do so they spent the night) I can't complain, I'm actually very happy about it. Sheri pays me very good money to feed the kids and read and play RockBand. Well it's alot more than that, they keep me running and tired, but there's no way I can complain about my "job". I just have to remind myself of that someti - ok alot of times during the day. They are so freakin' cute and just melt my heart half the day. (like this morning when I crawled into bed with them and they snuggled up to me) But the other half I just want to put them in a room and tell them not to talk to me for about 3 hours! Sometimes they are impossible and I want to give them back to their mom very very very very very very very very very much!! They are also impossible to keep fed. Do you know one reason I know Tony and I arn't ready for kids? We couldn't afford the grocery bill!!!!!! Anyway, Sheri has done so much for me that I am, in the end, happy to do it for her. Like I said, I'd be crazy to complain about it. It's been an adventure I'll say that!

I actually worry alot about motherhood. I worry that I'll never want kids. Babysitting has made me feel even more that way. And I'm getting paid to do it! I guess it's different though when they're your own kids. I mean I want kids, but I don't want kids. Does that make sense? I don't want to give up my "me" time. My alone time. I have lots of it and I love it. That's so selfish. I worry that something is wrong with me. Some nights I'll go to Tony just sobbing about fears of never wanting kids and not being a good mother. It's just weird. Some days I'll want to start a family so badly, but most days I don't. I'll get that twinge every now and then. I just haven't gotten to the point yet I guess where I believe I could do it. I'm alot further along than I used to be, but no where near I think I should be. I mean, shouldn't a 27 year old woman who has been married for 4 years be ready? /Sigh. But I think alot of it has to do with, if Tony and I had a baby right now, we would be screwed. Because we do not have the money for that. I think once we get in a good place job and money wise, I'll feel alot differently. I hope so.


I was very very happy I got to spend lots of time with my other sister Kristy when she was in town. The last few times I have either completely missed her or only seen her for a second. So it's been a long long time since I got to spend a good bit of time with her. Truthfully it's because I just didn't make it a top priority to see her, but this time I did. I told everyone I couldn't do anything Saturday night cause I was spending it with her and Sheri. It made me feel so good because I never thought I spent enough time with the family. Especially my sisters. I mean I would go out to Calhoun every weekend to see the parents before they left on their big trip, (and Sheri because she would be out there every weekend as well) and Kristy lives in Missouri so I hardly get to see her anyway, but I still felt like I didn't talk to enough/spend enough time with them. I know I don't call/email Kristy enough. I think because there is a really big age difference between my sisters and I, so it just took a while for me to want to keep in touch with them more. I've always thought family was #1, but, I guess with age you realize even more how important they are.

When I drove up to Sheri's house, all four kids, my nieces and nephew, were out in the driveway waiting on me and ran up to hug me. It did my heart good. I could not believe how much my nephew and niece had grown. Christopher is a freshman in high school now, and he is so .....grown up. Not annoying in the slightest (which is huge cause he was a very annoying child and pre-teen), holding just regular adult conversations with me.....crazy. Brittany is the cutest thing EVER. I told Kristy she was staying with me and I was going to adopt her. I wouldn't really though cause she is a MESS. I'd rather babysit Tyler and Rachel than Brit anyday. lol! I did my good deed for the month too, Sunday I kept all four kids at my house while Sheri and Kristy stole away to go see Sex & The City together. It just made their year. You should have seen all four kids from ages 7 to 15 playing RockBand. hahahaha That was a crazy 2 and a half hours here at the house.

I've been playing lots of Indiana Jones Legos on Xbox. It's great of course, but I can't wait for Batman Legos!!!
I finished Amber and Blood and sadly, it didn't do much for me. :( It was amazing to see so much of the gods' points of view, cause we never see that in Dragonlance, but that was about all that was amazing. I'm used to Dragonlance wowing me. This one just fell flat. I kept waiting for that gasp moment or....something. That made me sad. NOT to mention the fact that they need to hire me as an editor (or whoever the person who catches mistakes is called) at wizards of the coast because there were SO many mistakes (even a paragraph printed twice) in that book it was so distracting. It made me mad cause I'm a freak about that.

I had lots more to blog about but this is way long as it is and that just gives me more for another day. I guess one good thing about going so long w/out blogging is you have alot to say!

Disclaimer

Ok I had this whole post written about asking for advice on what I should do because I've been feeling the need to blog again. I haven't felt the need in a long while because of photoblog, which allows me to put one or more pics up, and give a quick description of my day. I LOVE it. (the link is in my links if you somehow missed when I talked about it long ago. Mark, I especially wish you would get one or atleast check mine every now and then because I know you love stuff like that!) But sometimes, I need to blog.

Only on here I usually feel self conscious when I blog because everyone puts so much effort into theirs, whether it be pictures, videos, book reviews, or just a huge update on all the big stuff that's been happening in their lives.

Well usually, nothing big is going on in my life and when I blog, I usually like to talk about what I did that day, whether it be to vent, or how I feel like poo, a cool video game I played, or complain about how smelly Tony's feet are. Even if it's "today, I had the most delicious peanut butter sandwhich. The End." I just don't feel like I can do that on here. That's one of the reasons I went to back to Xanga a while ago because it's a very simple "day to day" blog.

But then, I had to remember blogging is for yourself. If it makes you feel better, or even just helps you pass the time when your bored, then that's all that matters! Besides, I can only hope that the people who read this love me so much I could talk about how fast my grass is growing and still be ok with it ;D

But I defiantly will be blogging more, even if on some days I love my photoblog so much I just re-post it on here.

So, this is just a disclaimer that every now and then I will surprise you with a witty, amazing, edge of your seat blog. But most of the time, I'll just be eating peanut butter.

Seriously?

How did I not know this day exsisted? It's seriously National Doughnut Day today. An excuse to eat doughnuts? This is my most favorite day ever!


National Donut Day is celebrated on the first Friday in June. In 1917, Salvation Army female volunteers known as “lassies” prepared thousands of fresh donuts to the homesick soldiers that served in France during World War I. National Donut Day was officially established in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army to raise much-needed funds during the Great Depression.


Just in case your traveling, and you still want to take part in National Doughnut Day here are some translations for ya:

• Italy = fritole
• Montenegro = ustipci
• Mexico = churrro
• Turkey = lokma
• France = beignet
• Germany = krapfen
• Hungary = langos
• India = balushai
• Netherlands = oliebollen

And to cap it off, some doughnut facts! (I think I want to move to Canada)

• In the U.S. alone, more than 10 billion donuts are made every year.
• The largest donut ever made was an American-style jelly donut weighing 1.7 tons, which was 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center.
• Per capita, Canada has more donut shops than any other country, and also consumes the most.
  
• The hole in the donut's center appeared in the first half of the 19th Century.
• Adolph Levitt invented the first donut machine in 1920.
• Americans consume 10 billion donuts annually.